i am going to keep plugging this.

and i will tell you why.

because the few donations so far have been very generous. and my original thought was that if i can get everybody to donate just a little bit, then it will add up. and i still feel that way. and considering that people are obviously willing to give more than a little bit, things can add up even faster. i can tell you right now that i am not keeping all of this. as bleak as my situation is looking, it is looking just as bleak for everyone else, and not everybody has the support network that i do. so i can't sit back and be upset about my new Spring Air mattress that is now just a huge sponge, when having a place to sleep at all is the problem some people are faced with.

yesterday we went to the Galleria to see foreverinchaos. as much as we expected it to lift our spirits, it was rather depressing. walking through a mall, knowing we can't buy anything because we have to start replacing our lives, and cute clothes and cologne are really not necessities. today we decided we should go bowling, and go see a movie, and maybe go to Chuck E Cheese (katie's never been, she was a deprived child).

and yesterday my parents left money on the table for us to buy groceries. today they left three stacks of money, each with one of our names on it. dad was upset yesterday that we didn't go ice skating at the Galleria, he was like "i would have paid for you to go ice skating." what he doesn't understand is that chris' medical bills afterwards would have been harder to pay for.